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Manchester United midfielder Darren Fletcher is confident Scotland can build on their performance against Germany and have a successful European qualifying campaign.
Scotland competed well with the world champions in a 2-1 defeat in Dortmund, with Thomas Muller scoring twice for the home side, his second arriving shortly after Ikechi Anya levelled the scores.
Skipper Fletcher was disappointed to be replaced by Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur shortly before the equaliser, but accepts manager Gordon Strachan had his reasons.
Fletcher said: "The manager made the changes. He's got players who have performed for him in the past and he felt like he needed a change and it obviously worked because we came into the game a lot more."
But Fletcher saw enough both on and off the park after the break to give him hope ahead of the visit of Georgia to Ibrox next month and for the rest of the Group D campaign.
"We went there and showed we can compete and if we take that performance into other games then I am sure we will be fine," said Fletcher.
"We can't be disheartened. We knew that would be the most difficult game in the group so let's try to get some points on the board going forward.
"We changed the formation a little bit at half-time. Germany tired and we made a few chances.
"We believed in ourselves a bit more. You are always worried about attacking and leaving gaps but I thought the boys did fantastically well and we played some good stuff in the second half.
"We knew it was going to be difficult but it was hard to take because there were spells when we played well and created some really good chances."
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